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covered wagon noun- an aircraft carrier, especially the USS Langley US, 1933
- The nickname “covered wagon” describes the way the Langley looked with its rooflike landing strip over the deck. — Sunday Telegram (Worcester, Massachusetts), p. B1, 4 May 1997
- They called it a covered wagon because the flight deck was above the well deck making the ship sort of look like a covered wagon. — Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia), p. 5, 5 September 1997
- an ugly or unpleasant woman UK
Rhyming slang for DRAGON- — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- an improvised tent in a prison cell used to conceal sexual activity US
- They built “covered wagons” or “hunks” around the beds. That screened out what went on inside the bunks. — Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro Boy, p. 65, 1950
- “Prisoners, they got this thing they do called ‘the covered wagon.’ What they do is string up a blanket from a bunk so the guards can’t see into the cell. Then they take fresh ass, a guy like you, behind the blanket and gang-fuck him.” — John Ridley, Love is a Racket, p. 271, 1998
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